A sex diet is a lifestyle which maximizes the health benefits of regular sex. It is not technically a diet in the sense of a food-based regimen, but colloqually one in the sense of a system meant to increase health. Properly performed, sexual activity may cause a number of health benefits, such as decreasing depression and [...]
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The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet is a low-carbohydrate, low-calorie weight-loss diet system and accompanying book by Scarsdale, New York physician Dr. Herman Tarnower and Samm Sinclair Baker. The Scarsdale Medical Diet is still popular today.
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The Rice Diet is a program specializes in the prevention, treatment and reversal of obesity, hypertension, diabetes and congestive heart failure. The diet consists of fruits, grains, vegetables, beans, and olive oil with small amounts of non-fat dairy and seafood (& lean meats), which is what patients are directed to eat when they return home [...]
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Ital or I-tal is food approved of in the Rastafari movement. The word derives from the English word vital, with the initial syllable replaced by i. This is done to many words in the Rastafari vocabulary to signify the unity of the speaker with all of nature. Early adherents adopted the dietary laws of Leviticus and [...]
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The Pritikin Diet was often described by Nathan Pritikin, its creator, as “mankind’s original meal plan.” That’s because the focus of the Pritikin diet is unprocessed or minimally processed straight-from-nature foods like fruits, vegetables, legumes (such as black beans and pinto beans), whole grains such as brown rice, starchy vegetables like potatoes and yams, lean [...]
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Prison loaf, sometimes called Food loaf, Nutriloaf, Confinement Loaf or Special Management Meal, is a food item sometimes used in prisons as a deterrent to misbehavior. It is similar to meatloaf in texture, but has a wider variety of ingredients, including vegetables, meat, and other ingredients. Some versions may be vegetarian or completely vegan. The [...]
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Pollotarianism is a neologism to denote a dietary choice, in which a person does not consume mammalian meat such as beef, pork, and lamb, but does consume chicken or other poultry. Pollo-vegetarians tend to include non-flesh animal products such as dairy and eggs in their diet, as well.
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Herbivory is a form of predation in which an organism, known as a herbivore, consumes principally autotrophs such as plants, algae and photosynthesizing bacteria. By that definition, many fungi, some bacteria, many animals, some protists and a small number of parasitic plants can be considered herbivores. However, herbivory is generally restricted to animals eating plants. [...]
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Pescetarianism is a dietary choice, in which a person — known as a pescetarian — eats the flesh of fish or of other non-mammalian aquatic animals but will not eat the flesh of non-aquatic animals or aquatic mammalian animals. Other animal products like eggs and dairy may be part of a pescetarian diet. Terms like pesco-vegetarianism [...]
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Perricone is a dermatologist who has written several books, primarily on the subjects of weight loss and maintaining the appearance of youth. He is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, from which he received his MD. He has appeared in two special programs on PBS. He sells his [...]
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The Paleolithic diet, also popularly known as the paleo diet, caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a dietary regimen which seeks to mimic the diet of wild plants and animals that humans habitually consumed during the Paleolithic, a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with [...]
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A lacto-ovo vegetarian is a vegetarian who does not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but is willing to consume cheese, butter, yogurt and eggs. Lacto- means “milk” and ovo- means “egg”. In the Western world lacto-ovo vegetarians are the most common type of vegetarian. Generally speaking, when one uses [...]
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The Ornish Diet was developed by Dean Ornish M.D. and first detailed in his book Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease. It is a diet that is specifically formulated to reverse heart disease but has recently been used as a weight-loss program. This vegetarian diet emphasizes low-fat, filling foods, including legumes and other [...]
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Organic foods are produced according to certain production standards, meaning they are grown without the use of conventional pesticides, artificial fertilizers, human waste, or sewage sludge, and that they were processed without ionizing radiation or food additives. Livestock are reared without the routine use of antibiotics and without the use of growth hormones. In most [...]
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The Optimal Diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet developed by Polish doctor Jan Kwasniewski. The diet uses specific proportions between proteins, fats and carbohydrates (typically a 1: 3 : 0.8 weight ratio), and it emphasizes foods with “high biological value”, such as butter, lard, egg yolks, pork meat and bone stocks. The Optimal Diet [...]
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